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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Nov 2018
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    We are basically at the technological limit of firefighting. The 747 is not even being built anymore and it’s hard to think of a bigger fire truck than that 🤔 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/747_Supertanker …

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      2. Suspended Reason‏ @suspendedreason 11 Nov 2018
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        Replying to @RogueDunderhead @vgr

        Yeah drones, automated fighters, and better chemical retardants will be pretty big leaps for the field.

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      2. Metatone‏ @Metatone2 11 Nov 2018
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        Time for a new Spruce Goose? Or just some sclerotic European A380 conversions?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Nov 2018
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        Minor increase.

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      2. hazmatt‏ @deanboop 11 Nov 2018
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        I think this is only true if you think of firefighting technology as "putting out flames" instead of bottom-up rethinking of landscaping, architecture, city planning, etc.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Nov 2018
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        That more at the ideology level of the stack. Important but not a pure tech problem like “what’s the fastest way to lay down huge volumes of retardant over a wide area”

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      1. Matt "allium respecter" Olson‏ @arachnocapital2 11 Nov 2018
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        As far as scaling up our current tech, sure

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      1.  🪐 🧙🏼‍♂️ ✨‏ @mwiik 11 Nov 2018
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         🪐 🧙🏼‍♂️ ✨ Retweeted Scott Redler

        Yup!https://twitter.com/RedDogT3/status/1061367161342574604 …

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        This was taken by one of my Friends, friend, from his driveway. This Is Real for them pic.twitter.com/jPEj3PwpI4
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      1. David o'Bedlam‏ @David_o_Bedlam 11 Nov 2018
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        An A380? I think there was excess production of those. Side note: from the firenadoes you can totally see how the Israelites might have followed that pillar of fire, thought a sign of God. In a firenado situation, it just destroys any other sign of life before it.

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      1. Andrew Desmond‏ @beautifullybunk 11 Nov 2018
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        Broad-level application of algorithmic inputs/directives used by fire command to direct resources will be a game-changer. AI will process huge amounts of ground level, aerial, sat, GIS, social data to allocate resources in real time. Along with human instincts = superior control.

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